South Africa

Gilbert Phalafala started farming six years ago and was recently named the winner of the 2012 Toyota South Africa New Harvest competition for emerging farmers.

Richard Ablort-Morgan was named the 2012 Agri SA/Toyota SA Young Farmer of the Year.

When people are brought in by taxis and buses it’s no longer a labour issue, it’s ‘political’.

It’s day one of EuroTier 2012 in Hannover, Germany, and before the 9 am opening time the crowds at the gates were already growing impatient to be the first in.

Bryan Simms and his son Robert disappeared while flying over Mozambique on Sunday morning, 28 October 2012.

The red meat and wool grower industries levelled serious accusations against the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) in parliament recently saying that the department was failing them and warned that legal action might be taken to force the department to do its job.

The Gauteng Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (GDARD) has admitted to having ‘capacity problems’ regarding managing conditional grants and a lack of knowledge when it came to procurement processes.

A vegetable tunnel project worth half a million rand is lying in tatters because neither the government nor the beneficiaries want to take responsibility for its upkeep.

The future of biotechnology and the direction it takes is largely dependent on the public’s ability to understand and support the science.

Animal activists in the US are putting pressure on Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, to phase out the use of gestational crates, which restrict the movement of breeding sows.

The US farming sector appeared to have largely escaped the massive damage recently caused by Hurricane Sandy to urban areas along the US East Coast.

Attempts by Agri Wes Cape to defuse the situation at De Doorns were disrupted on Friday 9 November.